2+ hour, 40+ min ago  (377+ words) A Yale-led study describing a new Southern cavefish species provides strong evidence that new species can arise in organisms adapted to live only'underground. CT scanning revealed that the skull of the new species,'Typhlichthys styx, features the remnant of an…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (519+ words) A new study, based in part on samples from the Yale Peabody Museum, shows that a small dinosaur thought to be a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex was actually a distinct'species. Illustration by Andrey Atuchin, courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Natural History…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (574+ words) 210 million years ago, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (left) is disturbed by Hesperosuchus agilis (right) near'a Coelophysis carcass at what will become modern-day Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Illustration by Julio Lacerda On a fateful day 210 million years ago, two crocodile cousins about the…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (667+ words) Yale paleontologists are co-authors of a new study that may change our understanding of how a key wrist bone in birds'evolved. A life reconstruction of the specimen of Citipati, a dinosaur closely related to birds, analyzed with an x-ray cutaway…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1561+ words) At the Yale Peabody Museum, a student-made mural offers a glimpse into our planet's past "and brought together New Haven residents to imagine itsfuture. "Temporal Portal," a new mural in the Yale Peabody Museum. If you stand on the far…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (580+ words) A Yale-led study has found that night lizards, small reptiles that inhabit North and Central America, survived the extinction event that wiped out most life on Earth " despite living near ground'zero. Madrean tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma sylvaticum) El Cielo Biosphere…...